Raisin Cake

Ingredients

• 1/4 pkg. raisins
• 3 cups water
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup lard
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 sieve of flour
• and spices

Method

1. 1

   Boil raisins, water, and sugar for ten minutes, cool, then add lard and butter mixed, soda dissolved in water, eggs, flour, and spices.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Carbon County cook book (1926), page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

114 cups sugar, 114 cups milk. Beat eggs separate- ly, add whites last and bake 40 minutes. Filling For Nut Cake— 11% cups sugar, 1 teaspoon flavoring, one-third cup water. Boil un- til it strings, add beaten whites of 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon butter. — j é MRS. JOSN LYNN, Sunnyside. _ CARBON COUNTY COOK BOOK 24 English Pork Cake. 1 cup fat pork chopped, 1 cup boiling wa- ter, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup raisins, 14 cup currants; 1 level teaspoon soda, all kinds of spices, flour to make a stiff batter. Pour boiling water over pork, add other ingredients, flour and spices last, and bake. MRS. J. C. MUELLER. Poor Man’s Cake. 2 cups sugar, 14 cun lard, 2 cups sour mil‘, 2 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cloves, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 nutmeg grated, 1 lb. raisins, 4 cups flour. Cream su- gar and lard, dissolve soda in sour milk, add other ingredients and bake. MRS. W. W. JONES. Raisin Cake. 14 pkg. raisins, 3 cups water, 114 cups sugar. Boil ten minutes, then take from fire and cool. Then add 1 cup lard and butter mixed, 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in water, 2 eggs, 3/4, sieve of flour, and spices

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